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"I won’t force you to have to killsweet," Warren said "Now kill the to say Eidolon’s face contorted with possessive rage The air around him practically shimmered with menace

"Touch her and die" Eidolon exploded into action, calower lit the darkness, and then Bleak was flying backward, crashing into a fence before cruround,in the jaw before nailing hiut The bite of a blade in her shoulder made her yelp and miss a step As she careened off a tree trunk, an inhuman roar shattered her eardrums

Eidolon had morphed into some sort of horned de from a frame that was taller by half, twice as wide, and his sharp-toothed jaws held Warren between the launched himself at Eidolon Bleak leaped to his feet and ca into her ribs Screa sounds, and then Bleak was lifted violently into the air Eidolon held him in his jaws as he’d done Warrenas now in pieces on the ground, so Sig lay crumpled in an unnatural position at the base of a nearby oak tree

"Hellboy," she said gently He swung around to her, hell on two thickly s "Drop the human He’s not a threat anymore"

He raised his head and sniffed the air, his red eyes going to the cut on her arhtened until Bleak cried out

"I’m okay" She moved toward him, her arm outstretched Gently, she laid her palm on one leathery biceps "Please Put him down"

Abruptly, he opened his round Eidolon’s arms came around her, and his hot breath fanned over her neck Behind him, Bleak stirred, but didn’t lad you’re okay" She stroked his , slow passes to cal a beast, the very type of dehter with relish, struck her so hard it reverberated to her soul She loved this beast It didn’t matter what he hat she was, or what either of them had done in the past

Eidolon’s weakness is you But you could also be his strength Geh her head He loves you

And yes, he’d been ready to die rather than hurt her, proof, perhaps, that he really did want her Tears stung her eyes, and she began to shake

"Please, Hellboy," she whispered "Coht not coertips, she felt his skin soften, his body grow asped as he palainst his arousal He was back, but his eyes still glowed red, and the swirling tattoo on his face remained One hand tore at her shirt, but she didn’t resist, lesson learned during the Soulshredder disaster This would be her last chance to save him, and herself

"Eidolon, it’s not safe here We need privacy"

Growling low in his throat, he swept her up and carried her to a nearby building, a veterinary clinic, if she had to guess The door was locked In one powerful move, he kicked the door open It crashed into the wall behind it, and before the building had stopped vibrating from the impact, Eidolon had placed her on a desk When he stepped between her thighs, her legs came up to lock around his of their own accord

"I want you," he said, his tone a rough coh it had becorasped fistfuls of his torn, bloodied T-shirt and pulled hi full body contact as her skin came alive

"That’s it, Tayla" He tore her pants in his haste to remove them "Shohat you want"

She wanted him Whatever it took

Her voice shook as she blurted, "Bond with lock "Bond? No" Red eyes glowed in the darkness She thought she saw a flicker of gold break through, but then it was gone, and his guttural rasp drifted down to her

"Fuck? Yes"

Shit He’d warned her that if they waited too long it would be too late Desperation clawed at her as the reality set in She couldn’t lose hi what she’d read about his breed and theirrituals, she tore off her shirt, fumbled with the fasteners on her ankle holster, and withdrew her stang Before he could blink, she sliced through the front of her bra and drew the blade across the top of one breast Pain surged through her, followed by a double burn of lust and love

"Taste aze to her breasts Reaching up, she threaded her fingers through his hair and pulled him toward her, but just as the heady sensation of his hot breath fanning her skin hit her, he jerked away, eyes wild He palh her as it sealed up Every one of her injuries knitted together before she could pull away

"Please, Eidolon," she whispered "This is what you’ve wanted your entire life You want a mate Children You want to be a doctor Take roaned, and this tiold, molten brilliance "Besure,"

he panted "Can’t hold oner"

"I’ht between her thighs again "Hurry"

Instead, he kissed her Gently, leisurely, as if they had all the tih to make up for time wasted, he hauled her off the desk and yanked down her pants As she stepped out of theripped the edge hite-knuckled force, and the other released his arousal from his jeans

"Clih clenched teeth, and she knew they had not a second to spare "This has to be voluntary You must initiate it and offer it, the way I did with you in my room"

Anticipation made her sex clench and weep as she straddled hiid shaft His hands opened and closed at his sides as though he wanted to grab her In one quickhim deep He shouted and bucked, and the expression on his face could have been ecstasy or misery

He bit his lip so hard he drew blood as he strained to remain still

"Hurry, lirsha, hurry," he rasped "Your wrist Feedwith all her other weapons when she’d undressed Shit Thing was, she knew better than to not have a weapon within reach That hat he did to her, , all her hatred, disappeared

She looked down at hi her with a laser focus Little flecks of red broke through and she knew they’d reached critical mass She tore his caduceus pendant froht wrist It hurt; the blade was dull, but it did the job Quickly, she forced the cut against his ht hand, the tattooed one, closed on her left He threaded their fingers together so that fro, sinuous piece of artwork The connection, wrist-to-mouth, hand-to-hand, pelvis-to-pelvis, created a circuit, an electric path that made her screa with no sense of rhythularity Her body did what it wanted Every nerve ending tingled Her head spun Eidolon surged against her as she churned above hiistered in herhad ever been so intense, so good She was falling, and Eidolon would be there to catch her

Sensations popped all over, on her skin, in her veins, and when he pulled deeply on her wrist, it felt as though an erotic string connected her wrist to her sex She whimpered her approval as he sucked harder and her sex clenched with each draw from her vein

"I feel you inside, TaylaGods, I love you" The fingers on her hip tightened "Ohda his hps upith such force that she calowed red fire and then she caasm that went on and on